Supply Chain Management Syllabus

 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Unit I:
Understanding the Supply Chain, Supply Chain Performance and Drivers: What
is Supply Chain, Objectives of a Supply  Chain, Importance of Supply Chain Decision, and
Decision  Phases  in  a  Supply  Chain,  Competitive  and  Supply  Chain  Strategies,  Achieving
Strategic  Fit,  Drivers  of  Supply  Chain  Performance,  Framework  for  Structuring  Drivers,
competitive advantages through supply chain management?

Unit  II:
Designing  the  Supply  Chain  Network   Designing  Distribution  Networks  and
Applications  to  e-Business:  Role  of  distribution  in  a  supply  chain,  Factors  influencing
distribution  network  design,  design  options  for  a  distribution  network,  e-Business  and  the
distribution network,  Network Design in the Supply Chain: the role of network design in
the  supply  chain,  factors  influencing  network  design  decisions,  framework  for  network
design decisions, models for facility location and capacity allocation,  Network Design in an
Uncertain Environment: Impact of uncertainty on network design.

Unit  III:  
Planning  Demand  and  Supply  in  a  Supply  Chain   Demand  Forecasting  in a
Supply  Chain:  The  role  of  forecasting  in  a  supply  chain,  Characteristics  of  forecast,
Components  of  forecast  and  forecasting  methods,  Basic  approach  to  demand  forecasting,
managing,  Impact  of  Bullwhip  effect  Predictable  Variability:  Responding  to  predictable
variability  in  a  supply  chain,  Managing  supply  and  demand,  Managing  predictability  and
implementing solutions to predictable variability in practice, Integrated Supply Chain

Unit IV: 
Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain  Managing Economies
of Scale in a Supply Chain: Role of Cycle Inventory, Economies of Scale to exploit fixed
cost and quantity discount, Short term discounting, Managing Multi-echelon Cycle Inventory,
Managing  Uncertainty  in  a  Supply  Chain:  Role  of  Safety  Inventory  in  a  supply  chain,
Determining Appropriate Level of Safety Inventory, Managing Safety Inventory in a multiechelon supply chain.

Unit V:
Designing and Planning Transportation Networks  Transportation in a Supply
Chain:  Role,  Modes  of  transportation,  transportation  Infrastructure,  Design  options  for  a
transportation  network,  trade-offs  in  transportation  design,  Risk  management  in
transportation.

Unit VI: 
Managing Information Flow in Supply Chains The Role of IT in a Supply Chain,
The Supply Chain IT framework, Customer Relationship Management, Supplier Relationship
Management,  Internal  Supply  Chain  Management,  Supply  Chain  Technologies:  Bar  Code,
RFID, EDI, e-business suites etc.

Suggested Readings

1.Supply Chain Management, Chopra, Meindl and Kalra, Pearson Education, 3
rd edition and after
2.Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, David, Kaminsky, Edith, TMH Edition, 2
nd
Edition and after
3. Supply Chain Management Text & Cases, Vinod V Sople, Pearson Education
4. Supply Chain Management,Janat Shah,Pearson Education
5. Supply Chain Management ,Ballau and Srivastava,Pearson Education
6. Operations ManagementKrajewski,Malhotra,Ritzman,Srivastava, Oxford Higher Education
7. Supply Chain Management,Sharma, Oxford Higher Education